One day you won’t
be able to ignore me; you won’t
be able to trip me; you won’t
be able to point your fingers and laugh.
I am half the blood of gods; I’ll push your fists away effortlessly.
i want to call you out like a cold winter breeze full of ice and snow / but july cocoons
itself around you / flame and flame and smoke and mirrors / a wall i could never get
through /
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I hear you
Beating against the tempered glass
Your rhythmic melody
Tapping on the charcoal gray roof
It sounds like music
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Last Christmas
suddenly, all the traditions I knew were gone.
Just like that.
I once knew two girls who savored poison.
The last time we met was years ago,
But I hear they haven’t changed.
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I am worked to the bone
in the middle of the night.
I am going cross eyed
and I am tired.
And so done.
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Everywhere I looked,
Towering stone walls loomed
overhead, reaching up towards the clouds above.
A deathly silence settled upon our shells, none of us daring to move a single claw.
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I walk outside in the warm sunshine,
arrive at a crosswalk,
stand on the bumpy yellow crosswalk mat
and patiently wait.
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Girlhood lives in the
cracked window panes
and the torn notebook pages
in the broken drawers
with the baby blanket remnants.
My girlhood is in
shredded cuticles
and torn notebook pages.
Ballads in my room
where rituals take place
and the ground is littered in relics.
“I remember wanting to tell you that burnt sugar is waves,
to wash over you, but not swallow you. it’s quicksand,
take a misstep, and you sink.”
“I am welcomed to a new world of challenges
where friendships I had are gone,
like balloons in thin air.”
“Muggy subway steps
reach ground level.
Colored bibs safety pinned;
babies on the loose.”
“I despise you, yet
your presence comforts me
somewhere deep in my soul. You
are always there. You
never go away.”
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